The press center of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation said yesterday that servicemen of the Russian military base deployed in Tajikistan have begun a month-long combat training at the Lohour and Sumbula training grounds.
The purpose of the training, involving about 1000 servicemen, is for the servicemen to improve their professional skills.
Gunners, military engineers, air defense specialists, electronic warfare specialists and radiation, chemical and biological protection specialists will work out tasks for according to their combat mission, the press center said.
The Russian military base deployed in Tajikistan is subordinate to the Central Military District. It is Russia's largest non-naval military facility outside the country. It was officially opened in Tajikistan in 2004 under a previous agreement, which was signed in 1993, and hosts Russia’s largest military contingent deployed abroad. A total of some 7,000 Russian troops are now stationed at two military facilities collectively known as the 201st military base – in Dushanbe and Bokhtar (formerly Qurghon Teppa), some 100 kilometers from Dushanbe.
